This May Not Be for You: Overcoming Self-centered Design

We often unknowingly (or knowingly) build content and interfaces for ourselves, which may not fit the diverse and ever-changing needs of our users. The University of Minnesota Libraries web development team incorporates the universal design principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and awesomeness, and stays accountable with regular usability testing. We\u27ll tell you how we do it, and why you should too. Expect to go away from this session with: * your mind totally blown; * strategies for implementation with access to the Libraries’ templates; * and insight for why donuts need to be in your budget

Psychophysiology, task complexity, and team factors determine emergency response teams' shared beliefs

In field settings where the objective truth is not known, the extent to which you have the same understanding of the situation as your team leader may be used as an indicator for a team’s situation awareness. Two experiments showed emergency response team members’ degree of shared beliefs (measured as a ‘similarity index’) to be associated with which team they are in, but not with which position they have in the team. This indicates that factors specific to the teams, e.g. the leader’s behavior, the team’s shared experience, or communication patterns, are important for a team’s situation awareness. In the second experiment, task complexity was manipulated with a scripted scenario design and heart rate variability was measured as an indicator of executive function. Shared beliefs were shown to be associated with the degree of high frequency modulation of heart rate variability. Further, shared beliefs were associated with the designed task complexity for some teams. The experiments showed no association between the measure of shared beliefs and subjective reports of situation awareness

Re-Thinking Survey Promotion: It\u27s Not Just About the Numbers

Promoting a survey - it\u27s all about getting people to click on it, right? Not always. This session will describe the promotion campaign we designed for the James Madison University Libraries\u27 2015 LibQUAL+ survey. Ultimately, this campaign was not just about the survey - it was about how we want our campus to feel about the Libraries. Libraries commonly engage their user communities by gathering users\u27 feedback. Analyzing and acting on user feedback can lead to the responsive design and (re)development of library services, spaces, and programs. Our campaign placed that value of responsiveness front and center, with two taglines: Make Your Life Better. Take the Library Survey and Your Campus. Your Library. Have Your Say. To back up this bold claim that a library survey can improve one\u27s life, many of our promotional materials highlighted changes the library had already made in response to previous user feedback. And to help our message of being Your Library resonate with our campus community, we worked closely with a student employee with the wording of these taglines and on the graphic design. This partnership with a student allowed us to pilot-test a new idea of a street team of library student employees, who will help design and execute promotional and outreach work in an effort to develop more meaningful and active engagement with our user community. In this presentation, we will share some lessons we\u27ve learned from this survey promotion work and from our pilot test of this new street team. Included will be an assessment of which promotion methods were most effective, and a brief report on the results collected by the survey. Increasing positive sentiment about the Libraries was the real goal of this campaign. We wanted everyone who saw the campaign, whether or not they clicked through to the survey, to feel that the library is their library and to feel empowered to share feedback, now or in the future. We\u27ll discuss the creativity required in measuring that goal. This presentation will also touch on how engagement is a crucial part of a healthy assessment ecosystem that fortifies a cycle of measurement, results, action and engagement. Finally, session participants will be encouraged to reflect on and share how they are innovating in their promotion and outreach work, including survey promotion

Developing a water management program to reduce legionella growth & spread in buildings : a practical guide to implementing industry standards. Version 1.0

Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease is a serious type of pneumonia caused by bacteria, called Legionella, that live in water. Legionella can make people sick when they inhale contaminated water from building water systems that are not adequately maintained. Unfortunately, Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease is on the rise in the United States. To reverse this trend, we are asking for your help to manage the risk of exposure to Legionella from water in your building.Your building may need a water management program to reduce the risk for Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease associated with your building water system and devices. This water management program should identify areas or devices in your building where Legionella might grow or spread to people so that you can reduce that risk. Legionella water management programs are now an industry standard for large buildings in the United States (ASHRAE 188: Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems June 26, 2015. ASHRAE: Atlanta).This toolkit will help you develop and implement a water management program to reduce your building\ue2\u20ac\u2122s risk for growing and spreading Legionella. If you already have a program, this toolkit will help you assess and strengthen it. Included are practical resources to help you ensure that your water management program is comprehensive, effective, and in line with industry standards. This toolkit also highlights special considerations for healthcare facilities.Because building water systems vary in their design and complexity, examples in this toolkit are only meant to help you understand the process. You should develop a water management program to reduce Legionella growth and spread that is specific to your building.CS265765-Atoolkit.pdfForeword -- How to Use This Toolkit -- Identifying Buildings at Increased Risk -- Glossary -- Introduction to Legionella -- Elements of a Water Management Program -- Establish a Water Management Program Team -- Describe Your Building Water Systems Using Text -- Describe Your Building Water Systems Using a Flow Diagram -- Identify Areas Where Legionella Could Grow & Spread -- Control Measures & Corrective Actions: The Basics -- Decide Where Control Measures Should Be Applied -- Decide How to Monitor Your Control Measures -- Establish Ways to Intervene When Control Limits Are Not Met: Corrective Action Examples; Contingency Response Examples -- Make Sure the Program Is Running as Designed & Is Effective -- Document & Communicate All the Activities of Your Water Management Program -- Special Considerations for Healthcare Facilities: Elements of a Water Management Program; Identifying & Investigating Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 Disease Cases -- References & Resources -- Appendix A

Elearning Technologies

When blogging tools first arrived in 1998, people asked “What’s a blog?” The word “blog” is a contraction of “Web log” and is used both as a noun as well as a verb. To blog is to write content to a blog. By design, blogs are best suited for the spontaneous thoughts and observations of an individual or team. They are not designed to facilitate rapid-fire back-and-forth discussion on a particular issue. Blogging tools are available as free or moderately priced services and as products you purchase and install on your own server. You may have noticed recently that many of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. When you click on the button, all you see is some jumbled text and computer code [ed: unless you have a newer web browser or an aggregator]. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and it's changing the way people access the Internet.Weblog, RSS, e-learning, RSS, blogging tools

Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users:A toolkit for the third and public sector

Welcome to Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users: a toolkit for the third and public sector.WHO IS THIS TOOLKIT FOR?This toolkit offers practical support to any third and public sector professional who wants to adapt their use of digital platforms. You don’t need to have design or programming skills to be able to use this toolkit. The recommendations offered in this toolkit don’t ask you to re-design digital platforms from scratch, but rather provide support on how to manage the content which populates your online platforms, and to provide appropriate level of guidance to users. For those who do have the skills to design digital platforms or have a team of designers at disposition, we offer a separate toolkit specific to these needs, which you can find at www.autisticadultsonline.com/toolkits. The tips offered in this guide are not just for platforms that are meant to be used exclusively with autistic users, but are applicable to any website, social media, and online group which may include autistic users.Autism is largely underdiagnosed, and if you are using digital platforms with a public audience, chances are there will be neurodivergent people accessing your platforms. The adjustments recommended in this toolkit will improve the user experience of your audience as a whole. Digital platforms are in constant evolution. Providing platform-specific instructions, for instance how to set up a Facebook group, would have condemned this toolkit to a short lifespan. Instead, we focused on concepts and approaches that can be applied to any platform you are working with (websites, social media platforms, online groups, forums, online courses).<br/

Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users:A toolkit for the third and public sector

Welcome to Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users: a toolkit for the third and public sector.WHO IS THIS TOOLKIT FOR?This toolkit offers practical support to any third and public sector professional who wants to adapt their use of digital platforms. You don’t need to have design or programming skills to be able to use this toolkit. The recommendations offered in this toolkit don’t ask you to re-design digital platforms from scratch, but rather provide support on how to manage the content which populates your online platforms, and to provide appropriate level of guidance to users. For those who do have the skills to design digital platforms or have a team of designers at disposition, we offer a separate toolkit specific to these needs, which you can find at www.autisticadultsonline.com/toolkits. The tips offered in this guide are not just for platforms that are meant to be used exclusively with autistic users, but are applicable to any website, social media, and online group which may include autistic users.Autism is largely underdiagnosed, and if you are using digital platforms with a public audience, chances are there will be neurodivergent people accessing your platforms. The adjustments recommended in this toolkit will improve the user experience of your audience as a whole. Digital platforms are in constant evolution. Providing platform-specific instructions, for instance how to set up a Facebook group, would have condemned this toolkit to a short lifespan. Instead, we focused on concepts and approaches that can be applied to any platform you are working with (websites, social media platforms, online groups, forums, online courses).<br/

Developing a water management program to reduce legionella growth & spread in buildings : a practical guide to implementing industry standards. Version 1.1

Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease is a serious type of pneumonia caused by bacteria, called Legionella, that live in water. Legionella can make people sick when they inhale contaminated water from building water systems that are not adequately maintained. Unfortunately, Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease is on the rise in the United States. To reverse this trend, we are asking for your help to manage the risk of exposure to Legionella from water in your building.Your building may need a water management program to reduce the risk for Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease associated with your building water system and devices. This water management program should identify areas or devices in your building where Legionella might grow or spread to people so that you can reduce that risk. Legionella water management programs are now an industry standard for large buildings in the United States (ASHRAE 188: Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems June 26, 2015. ASHRAE: Atlanta).This toolkit will help you develop and implement a water management program to reduce your building\ue2\u20ac\u2122s risk for growing and spreading Legionella. If you already have a program, this toolkit will help you assess and strengthen it. Included are practical resources to help you ensure that your water management program is comprehensive, effective, and in line with industry standards. This toolkit also highlights special considerations for healthcare facilities.Because building water systems vary in their design and complexity, examples in this toolkit are only meant to help you understand the process. You should develop a water management program to reduce Legionella growth and spread that is specific to your building.CS278132-Atoolkit.pdfForeword -- How to Use This Toolkit -- Identifying Buildings at Increased Risk -- Glossary -- Introduction to Legionella -- Elements of a Water Management Program -- Establish a Water Management Program Team -- Describe Your Building Water Systems Using Text -- Describe Your Building Water Systems Using a Flow Diagram -- Identify Areas Where Legionella Could Grow & Spread -- Control Measures & Corrective Actions: The Basics -- Decide Where Control Measures Should Be Applied -- Decide How to Monitor Your Control Measures -- Establish Ways to Intervene When Control Limits Are Not Met: Corrective Action Examples; Contingency Response Examples -- Make Sure the Program Is Running as Designed & Is Effective -- Document & Communicate All the Activities of Your Water Management Program -- Special Considerations for Healthcare Facilities: Elements of a Water Management Program; Identifying & Investigating Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 Disease Cases -- References & Resources -- Appendix A. Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease -- Appendix B. What clinicians ned to know about Legionnaires\ue2\u20ac\u2122 disease

Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge

The FPVC combines mechanical engineering disciplines to design and manufacture a vehicle that utilizes hydraulic power. The FDR covers the final manufacturing process and verification processes developed during the front end of research and analysis built upon the Critical Design Review (CDR) and the PDR (Preliminary Design Review). This report showcases the design decisions and extensive research that supports the continuing efforts by the Team Pump My Ride, to build upon the accomplishments of Cal Poly’s previous team, The Incompressibles. The FDR presents how Team Pump My Ride produced the design changes from the CDR and PDR to achieve improvements to the vehicle’s performance. The FDR is detailed with the procurement methods, validation procedures, results, conclusions, recommendations for next year’s team. In addition, details about the virtual competition are included in this report. Major changes that were made during manufacturing included reconstruction of the rear drive train, installation of the new manifold with soft lines, mounting the controller unit, re-designing the controller software and hardware, installation of new bike tires, and re-orientating the accumulator. Testing that was completed include a full trial run for competition as well as testing different pre-charge pressures. In addition, a user manual was developed in order to aid the next team’s members to operate the bike. This report proceeds to conclude team Pump My Ride’s efforts to improve the vehicle and finish as a high-ranking competitor in the 2020 Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge. Disclaimer: This report is meant to be used as a guide for basic orientation with the 2020 Cal Poly Fluid Powered Vehicle. This is a dangerous machine that can cause grave bodily injury if misused. This report is in no way complete and should not be treated as such. High pressure hydraulics are inherently dangerous, and care should be taken whenever in the vicinity of the vehicle. Likewise, the Li-Po battery used on this project must be fully understood to prevent injury or fires. By using the vehicle, you take full responsibility for your safety and the safety of those around you

Evolving Our Evaluation of Lighting Environments Project

Imagine you are an astronaut on their 100th day of your three year exploration mission. During your daily routine to the small hygiene compartment of the spacecraft, you realize that no matter what you do, your body blocks the light from the lamp. You can clearly see your hands or your toes but not both! What were those design engineers thinking! It would have been nice if they could have made the walls glow instead! The reason the designers were not more innovative is that their interpretation of the system lighting requirements didn't allow them to be so! Currently, our interior spacecraft lighting standards and requirements are written around the concept of a quantity of light illuminating a spacecraft surface. The natural interpretation for the engineer is that a lamp that throws light to the surface is required. Because of certification costs, only one lamp is designed and small rooms can wind up with lamps that may be inappropriate for the room architecture. The advances in solid state light emitting technologies and optics for lighting and visual communication necessitates the evaluation of how NASA envisions spacecraft lighting architectures and how NASA uses industry standards for the design and evaluation of lighting system. Current NASA lighting standards and requirements for existing architectures focus on the separate ability of a lighting system to throw light against a surface or the ability of a display system to provide the appropriate visual contrast. Realization that these systems can be integrated is not realized. The result is that the systems are developed independent from one another and potential efficiencies that could be realized from borrowing from the concept of one technology and applying it for the purpose of the other does not occur. This project investigated the possibility of incorporating large luminous surface lamps as an alternative or supplement to overhead lighting. We identified existing industry standards for architectural luminous or brightness uniformity as part of a lighting system definition. The efficiency of the surface lighting technology was evaluated for uniformity and power consumption. Finally, the team investigated possible performance savings if the walls were made to glow via a self luminous surface system instead of creating brightness by use of direct lighting of a highly reflective diffuse surface